Improvement in cooking-stoves



N. is. VEDDER:

Codking Stove. No. 111,887. V ,Patented Feb-14, 1871 m C Q 81 i A 5 E iO wenior qtlnited fitting NICHOLAS sgvanoan,

or TROY, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 111,887, dated February 14, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-STOVEQ.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and snaking part of thesums.

To all whom. it may concern Be it known that I, NIGHOLAS'S. VEDDER, ofTroy, in the county of Bensselaer and State of New York,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cooking-Stoves; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full and correct description of thesame tion, and in which- Fignre 1 is a plan or top View of myimprovement in cooking-stoves, and

Figures 2 and 3 are longitudinal central sections of the same, showingthe damper in different positions.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

My invention relates to that class of cooking-stoves which, by means offines and a damper, has a direct or an indirect draught, and which isprovided with a reservoir at the rear of the stove; and

'It consists in the peculiar arrangement of the reservoir whereby achamber is formed between the back of the stove and the front of thereservoir, through which the products of combustion must pass, and thusheat the reservoir, whether the direct or the in direct draught is used.

A in the drawing represents the top plate of a cookstove, the ends a aof which extend beyond the back plate B, and are suitably secured to thesides of the reservoir 0.

The bottom of this reservoir extends to the back plate B, while itsfront wall D, being slightly curved, does not extend to the some, butwith it forms a chamber, E, which is closed at the sides by plates F,which may be either formed separate or as extensions of the sides of thereservoir.

The top plate G of the reservoir is provided with a rim, g, around anopening, h, which latter fits snugly over an opening, 4), formed by abent plate, f, which is secured with its ends to the front of thereservoir, while its center is connected to back-plate B extcndingupwardly flush with the top of the front of the reservoir and the underside of top plate G, while downwardly it extends about half-way down thechamber E.

It will be understood that by this arrangement the products ofcombustion must pass down into chamber E outside of the plate j; andthen up through portion 1'. of the chamber, to pass out of.thestove-pipe, which is placed over rim 9, whether the damperH is placedfor a direct or an indirect draught.

In fig. 2-1 have shown the damper H placed for a direct draught, theproducts of combustion passing out directly through the center flue intochamber E, and out, as described, while in fig. 3 the damper beingplaced for an indirect draught, the products of combustion pass down theside fines, enter the center flues at the bottom, and then pass outthrough chamber E, the reservoir receivingalways the benefit of theheat. I

Rising from the back-plate, and passing around to the rear, is a rim,11, over which the top plate G of the reservoir fits, which latter ismade removable for the ready cleaning of chamber E'and the fines.

' Access to the side lines is bad by openings 0, covered by hingedcovers (1,Whl0ll can be operated without removing the top plate Gthrough openings j formed in the latter.

Itwill be readily understood that by mypeculiar arrangement of thereservoir no opening need be cut in the back plate of the stove in whichto place the front of the reservoir.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. Thearrangement of the reservoir 0 at the rear of a cook-stove in such ainanner as to form achamber, E, through'which the products of combustionmust pass, whether a direct or an indirect draught is used,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2.. The chamber E, formed by the back-plate of the stove and the frontof the reservoir 0, and divided into side-down and center-up flue bymeans of plate 1', substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. Theopenings c, in the top plate of the stove, over the side .fluesand covers (1, in combination with the openings j in the top plate G,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

NICHOLAS S. VEDDER.

Witnesses:

H. O. BASCOM, AUSTIN F. PARK.

